From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: traverse a directory Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 20:30:13 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <5f20a79c-c1fc-4853-b55f-657f6d66f0e9@l6g2000prm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199335225 22062 80.91.229.12 (3 Jan 2008 04:40:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 04:40:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 03 05:40:46 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JAHsq-0003o4-PH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:40:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JAHsU-0006o7-K4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:40:22 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.9.239.250 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1199334614 31216 127.0.0.1 (3 Jan 2008 04:30:14 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 04:30:14 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=64.9.239.250; posting-account=qPxGtQkAAADb6PWdLGiWVucht1ZDR6fn User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/523.12.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.4 Safari/523.12.2, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:155022 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:50443 Archived-At: Xah Lee wrote: $B!V(Bif i want to recurse into a directory, do i have to write my own?$B!W(B Eli Zaretskii wrote: $B!V(BTake a look at the package find-lisp.el, which is bundled with Emacs 22. It has infrastructure for what you want. In particular, there's the `find-lisp-find-files-internal' function that recursively traverses a directory.$B!W(B Thanks. That does it. (require 'find-lisp) (find-lisp-find-files "~/web/" "\\.html$") Xah xah@xahlee.org $B-t(B http://xahlee.org/